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San Francisco appeals to crews with Vendor Discount Programme
In a bid to attract more productions to film in the city, San Francisco has launched the Scene in San Francisco Vendor Discount Program. Companies throughout the city are being encouraged to sign up to the scheme, which involves guaranteeing…
New Attenborough doc to film near Antarctic Peninsula
Sir David Attenborough is set to narrate a new wildlife documentary for Sky 3D called Penguin Island 3D that will be filmed on location on the uninhabited island of South Georgia near the Antarctic Peninsula. The film will include underwater…
ActionAid shoots child sponsorship commercial in Kenya
Child sponsorship charity ActionAid has filmed a new commercial in a Kenyan village. The spot highlights the organisation’s success in fitting fresh-water pumps in the region and takes a deliberately upbeat tone. James Sexton, of Ogilvy, said: “We spent two…
New campaign designed to boost LA filming
FilmLA is aiming to encourage more productions to film in Los Angeles with the launch of a new advertising campaign called Film Works. The scheme includes a new website (www.filmworksla.com) that highlights the economic impact of the audiovisual industry in…
Tom Cruise praises Dubai after Mission: Impossible shoot
The Dubai leg of the shoot for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has finished and Tom Cruise has written a thank you letter to the country and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed. Writing on his official website, Cruise said: “We were…
On location in Turkey
Turkey has most of the ingredients a truly world-class international filming location needs. There is just one thing missing: incentives. But when you consider everything else it has going on, are tax credits really that important? The 21st Century will…
Location Manager Christian McWilliams talks to TLG
This month I talked to Christian McWilliams, the English Location Manager who has reinvented himself as the undisputed go-to guy for Morocco. We discussed Tony Scott, Peter Weir’s The Way Back, and the most beguiling, history-steeped studio in Africa: Atlas…
Rubles and the Red Square: On location in Russia
Above all else you need to have one thing when filming in Russia - cash, and lots of it. Much has changed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia (or at least the twin cities of Moscow and St…
Filming in Morocco with Lasse Hallström
I was sitting on my terrace in Tenerife, sipping a beer, when I received the call to go to Morocco and UPM the Moroccan end of Salmon fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström. Many of my colleagues have…
On location in Singapore
An island country off the Malay Peninsula just 85 miles north of the equator in Southeast Asia, there’s no doubt Singapore is something special. Any visitor can see within seconds that this thriving cosmopolitan city state is abuzz with life.…